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(Reuters) - It took 85 days for Olivia Caceres to retrieve her baby boy, pulled from his father’s arms at the U.S. border, a traumatic experience many more parents face to reunite with children separated under President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
Now nearly 20 months old, Mateo was returned to his family on Feb. 8 after a battle across borders, officialdom and languages. He was filthy and terrified of the dark, his mother said. Months later, the boy still screeches even as Caceres rocks him on her chest, sometimes until dawn.
For reasons that are unclear, U.S. immigration officials pulled Mateo from Fuentes’ clutch as he was being transferred to San Diego’s Otay Mesa detention center, along with the children of three other fathers. He was not told where the baby was sent.
When she finally got Mateo back in February, “he looked like he hadn’t been bathed in three months”, said Caceres in a telephone interview with Reuters this week from Los Angeles. “It was very hard to see the condition he was in. I don’t want to imagine that mountain of children, how they care for them,” she said, choking on tears.
originally posted by: Kharron
a reply to: Ameilia
And who should the blame be placed on?
This has been happening since Obama, and that makes it alright? Are we now making excuses for two presidents engaging in human rights violations? What the heck?
Why are people making excuses for such abhorrent behavior, when did this become normal?
And who should the blame be placed on?
originally posted by: Kharron
I get it that we're not going to all see eye to eye here. Some of us are going to see more emotion in this and others will try to make it look like it's nothing. Some will be very business like and see children as numbers and other will see these as their own, as a mother or a father. We're all different.
But ask yourselves this... when all is said and done, hopefully resolved peacefully... who do you think will end up looking bad?
Those who were on the side of kids or those who were not?
originally posted by: 3n19m470
originally posted by: Kharron
a reply to: Ameilia
And who should the blame be placed on?
This has been happening since Obama, and that makes it alright? Are we now making excuses for two presidents engaging in human rights violations? What the heck?
Why are people making excuses for such abhorrent behavior, when did this become normal?
The blame should be placed on the only people on this planet that baby has to count on to make the best decisions for its well being... The Parents!!!!!
originally posted by: notsure1
originally posted by: Kharron
I get it that we're not going to all see eye to eye here. Some of us are going to see more emotion in this and others will try to make it look like it's nothing. Some will be very business like and see children as numbers and other will see these as their own, as a mother or a father. We're all different.
But ask yourselves this... when all is said and done, hopefully resolved peacefully... who do you think will end up looking bad?
Those who were on the side of kids or those who were not?
I bet you think you are on the side of the kids.
Thats the problem..
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Watch people start having kids just to use them as a tool to drag across the border with them, over all this.
originally posted by: Kharron
originally posted by: 3n19m470
originally posted by: Kharron
a reply to: Ameilia
And who should the blame be placed on?
This has been happening since Obama, and that makes it alright? Are we now making excuses for two presidents engaging in human rights violations? What the heck?
Why are people making excuses for such abhorrent behavior, when did this become normal?
The blame should be placed on the only people on this planet that baby has to count on to make the best decisions for its well being... The Parents!!!!!
Maybe they heard we were more civilized when they undertook the trek? I'm not making excuses for them wanting to come here nor am I claiming I know their reasons.
All I know is that we are ending up looking like jack-booted thugs from the way we are acting. And the only thing we can control is how we act, not how they act.
There was a time we were proud to be leaders in human rights.
originally posted by: Kharron
originally posted by: 3n19m470
originally posted by: Kharron
a reply to: Ameilia
And who should the blame be placed on?
This has been happening since Obama, and that makes it alright? Are we now making excuses for two presidents engaging in human rights violations? What the heck?
Why are people making excuses for such abhorrent behavior, when did this become normal?
The blame should be placed on the only people on this planet that baby has to count on to make the best decisions for its well being... The Parents!!!!!
Maybe they heard we were more civilized when they undertook the trek? I'm not making excuses for them wanting to come here nor am I claiming I know their reasons.
All I know is that we are ending up looking like jack-booted thugs from the way we are acting. And the only thing we can control is how we act, not how they act.
There was a time we were proud to be leaders in human rights.